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Tuesday. Paco interviews us about marriage and how we live our lives… and basically how we swim against the tide in a culture of death. Gave thanks once again for the gift of scouting and the Ad Altare Dei program.

Wednesday. Met with Colleen for AAD graduation and prayer service. She [...]

Pro-Life Doctor, Where Art Thou?

Frustrating.

Looking for a pro-life doctor within an hour’s drive of Cincinnati who’s willing to order vaccines for us, not cultivated using aborted fetal cell lines.

We went back to our old pediatrician when we came back to Ohio. He doesn’t know a thing about aborted fetal cell lines and asked me to send him an e-mail [...]

Voyage of the Dawn Treader Trailer!!

Chronicles Of [...]

Steve Ray in Manila

Steve Ray is scheduled to be in Manila next month.

The Defensores Fidei Foundation is organizing a gathering with him for apologists on July 17, 2010 from 9:00AM-12 noon. Fee is P300 per person.

The organizers are organizing — leave a comment if you want to attend and I’ll forward your info [...]

Africa Unit Study, St. Charles Lwanga

How timely (and ironic, but more on that later) that we’re doing our Africa unit study and today is the feast day of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions! I’m keeping it simple (everyone’s still recovering, bad coughs all around) so we’re simply going to read from the Liturgy of the Hours, which includes a portion [...]

My Catholic Faith Delivered!

Really exciting news landed in my reader box today:

My Catholic Faith Delivered

They have pricing info so far on the Faith and Life series. I’m interested in the Didache as well. Strongly considering signing up. I’m not giving up the one-on-one and the group discussions as those are vital, but this should free up [...]

This Week’s Bento Box Lineup (week of May 30)

one kid still sick, three recovering, mom too… so keeping it simple the next few days.

this week’s offerings:

Hotdog Fried Rice (hah! using leftover Coleman hotdogs from Memorial Day Weekend)
Filipino sopas with freshly-harvested mini chard and spinach
Prosciutto-wrapped Shrimp, pan-grilled
Black Bean, Red Pepper and Feta Burrito
Craisin Scones

Coming up:
stuff from Africa Unit Study Day 4
salmon curry
Jiaozi
Stir-fried Broccoli
Roasted Potato [...]

Africa Unit Study, Day 15

Answer the questions on page 278 of All Ye Lands.

Read aloud: 14 Cows for America.
Teacher guide available here. Pick an activity to do (you can do more than one if you like.)

Today’s Menu:

Shrimp Curry, Cape Malay-Style
Waakye
Gomen Wat
Grilled Sweet Potatoes with Lime Dressing
Pineapples and Mangoes [...]

Gives A Whole New Meaning To “Blood Money”

Largest Abortion Clinic in U.S., opening in 10 days — a building that used to house a bank. It’s even “cash-register shaped”. Goosebumps, anyone?

h/t: [...]

Africa Unit Study: Day 2

Read All Ye Lands, pp. 262-268.

Read about Mercator maps. Draw and take notes.

Learn about Africa’s Climate. Draw and take notes.

Copywork/Vocabulary:
Tropical
Rainforest
Humid
Savanna
Steppe
Highland
Altitude
Latitude
Attitude
Monsoon

Our Lady of Africa:

About Our Lady of Africa
For Blessed Virgin notebook: Prayer
for Mom and older kids: Pope John Paul II’s Act of Entrustment to Mary, Our Lady of Africa

Read-aloud: Malawi and “Makhosi [...]

Archbishop Schnurr on the “Health Care” Bill

Pastors:

Positions on the current healthcare legislation taken by groups with “Catholic” in their name have caused a great deal of confusion about the official position of the Catholic Church. On Monday, we sent out a statement from Cardinal George on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops explaining the Church’s position in opposition to [...]

Too Many Brownies, QoTD, Faith Talking, the Menu, Devotion #2

It’s 2:09 am and yes, I’m still awake. Made allergy-free brownies for Aisa’s party with her college friends (+the Walshes) and I forgot that I made it with regular coffee, STRONG-BREWED even… and now everyone’s asleep and I’m still awake. I’m going to be dead in the morning, just when little one will be [...]

Love and Devotion, Pussy Willow, Miquelrius

Thinking:

Love is a fire, which when fanned into a flame, becomes devotion.

The love which we begin with early on is a tiny bud, which we water and feed and grow under the light of His Grace… until it becomes DEVOTION. Love brought us together, bound us together… devotion keeps us together. By constantly attaching [...]

Gendercide at The Economist

I was at Costco today and while passing the magazine rack the cover of The Economist caught my eye. Quickly perused the article on Gendercide: The war on baby girls | Killed, aborted or neglected, at least 100m girls have disappeared—and the number is rising. I’m not a regular reader at all of [...]

Isaiah 58:1-7

1Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Tell my people their wickedness, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2They seek me day after day, and desire to know my ways, Like a nation that has done what is just and not abandoned the law of their God; They [...]